Allentown native Lara Jill Miller first made a name for herself as the star
of the sitcom “Gimme A Break,” but now she makes more of a name as the voice
of a vast collection of animated characters.

She is a main character on the
preschool series that dethroned “Dora the Explorer,” and is poised to star as
the title character in the next big Disney Junior series slated to debut in
April.

In April Miller will be heard as the voice of the main character for Disney
Junior’s highly anticipated “Henry Hugglemonster,” based on the Irish children’s
book “I’m a Happy Hugglewug” by Niamh Sharkey.

She's riding high as the voice of Lambie in Disney Junior’s hit preschool
series “Doc McStuffins” which passed “Dora the Explorer” to become the top
preschool series on cable television.

The series which debuted last March and airs on both Disney Junior and the
Disney Channel attracts 1.7 million viewers according to Nielsen. Nickelodeon's
“Dora” draws 1.4 million viewers. In the series Miller plays the stuffed lamb
best friend of the show's main character Doc, a 6-year-old girl who is
interested in medicine and takes care of all the toy’s boo-boos.

“Bringing Lambie to life is a total thrill,” Miller says. “Her twirls, her
cuddles! I picture wearing a tutu just like her. The ability to create the
character, how they walk, talk, laugh, even think, with just a vocal nuance is
really inspiring.”

Miller is the undisputed local queen of voice actors and her voice
resume goes back to her first major voice role, bringing main character Kari
Kamiya to life in the Digimon series and movies from 1999 to 2002. Since then
she’s voiced Widget in Nickelodeon's “Wow Wow Wubbzy!,” Allie on PBS' popular
“Curious George,” the title roles in the PBS series “Clifford's Puppy Days” and
Cartoon Network's “The Life and Times of Juniper Lee.” She also provides the voice for Izzy, the cartoon counterpart to the live action SciGirls on PBS.

She says she loves what she does and enjoys the challenge of being such different characters.

“If you walked into the booth, you'd see how different I stand, move my face,
my body, my whole countenance changes when I record different characters,” she
says. “Where else but with voice work could I play a little singing ballerina
lamb one day and then a flying orange monster with big claws the next with no
makeup or wardrobe changes?”!

Before moving to voice work, Miller played Samantha, opposite Nell Carter in
the hit 1980s sitcom “Gimme A Break!,” which ran on NBC for six seasons.